Tillie Schneider, daughter of Josiah and Heather Schneider of Spring Valley, prepared to show her goat during the goat show Thursday night at the Fillmore County Fair. CHARLIE WARNER/SPRING VALLEY TRIBUNE

“My recommendation is premised basically on vacating Wykoff. I cannot stand here and recommend that you put a substantial amount of money into the building in Wykoff. I can’t, in good faith, as an engineer, recommend that you do that. My term for the Wykoff building — and I know this will make me unpopular with people in Wykoff — is ‘brooding,’” said structural engineer Randy Lutz, of CCP, the firm that the Kingsland School Board chose to handle the assessment of the district’s two school buildings.

In the past few months, Lanesboro saw a tremendous influx of new businesses popping up in town. One of those businesses was Back Pedal, owned by Spring Valley and Lanesboro resident Sarah Kohn and her sister, Peggy Toft.

“My recommendation is premised basically on vacating Wykoff. I cannot stand here and recommend that you put a substantial amount of money into the building in Wykoff. I can’t, in good faith, as an engineer, recommend that you do that. My term for the Wykoff building — and I know this will make me unpopular with people in Wykoff — is ‘brooding,’” said structural engineer Randy Lutz, of CCP, the firm that the Kingsland School Board chose to handle the assessment of the district’s two school buildings.

“It’s nice and open up here,” observed Dennis, taking in the rays in his back yard on South Broadway, knowing that the home’s southern exposure and the 18 solar panels on the garage roof did their part to actually turn back his power meter if there was enough sunshine.

In August, Civil War historian and author Nick Adams will be traveling to the Spring Valley, Harmony and Preston libraries, speaking about this monumental part of America's history. Included in his presentation is his own great-great-grandfather's role as a part of the Second Minnesota Regiment and Adams’ book compiling letters left from the war.

“‘Moo!’ went great – we had 200 kids and 75 adults who packed the library. I thank those who helped with the event. SELCO also got great feedback, and last Wednesday, we had officer James Bradley and his dog, Duke, here to visit. Yesterday, we had the ambulance…all these weeks, we’ve had great kids and great programs,” commented Spring Valley Public Library director Jenny Simon, reporting to the Spring Valley Library Board of Trustees on the children’s summer reading program during the July Spring Valley Library Board meeting.